On Tuesday 11 December 2007 10:52, Severin Gehwolf wrote: > Hi! > > > I been asked to migrate a software localisation website from Fedora 9 to > > Centos 5. Unfortunately much of the content of the site was developed > > using FrontPage on windows. I'm having trouble with the display of some > > characters. For instance the apostrophe in english text and accents in > > spanish. These are appearing as a black diamond with what appears to be a > > question mark inside. > > To me, this sounds like that you haven't specified the right > "Content-Type" header. I assume you are using some standard encoding, > which is totally ok. However, your pages most probably use a > windows-specific charset (using some extra characters in the 0x80-0x9F > range). > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 Yep I see the following in several files. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> Thanks I'll have a look at that page. Tony > > You can research the charset of your original pages and set the > "Content-Type" header accordingly. Getting rid of those special > characters would be the better solution, though. > > Just some ideas. There might be better solutions... > > -- > Severin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx